Published by Niall Devitt, Btb Business Training

I’m often asked for the reason or reasons behind why corporate training so often fails so here goes:

Because the Trainer:

• Was rubbish
• Pocessed no understanding of the client’s business
• Was not prepared or did not spend time on-site getting to know the client’s business
• Refused, was afraid or unable to offer the correct training solution
• Was unable to create a learning environment for the participants
• Talked too much
• Used power point
• Was unable to encourage, deal with or use real constructive criticism and feedback

Because the Training Provider:

• Offered “out of the box” training courses to solve behaviour led problems
• Out of the box training dressed up as bespoke
• Motivation type courses been offered to solve a skills shortage
• Flavour of the month/year courses

Because the Need Analysis/Training Objectives consisted of:

• No needs analysis
• Incorrect needs analysis
• Not enough time spend on needs analysis
• No real training objectives
• Too many or unrealistic training objectives
• No defined ROIs
• Unrealistic ROIs

Because the Client

• Failed or refused to recognise the real problem/issues
• Would not accept management been the actual problem
• Did not take the training experience seriously
• Could not or would not trust the trainer
• Wanted the trainer to offer a solution before the needs analysis was carried out
• Was not prepared to make correct levels of investment in terms of monies and time

Because the Training Course:

• Matched participants expectations
• Started badly
• Was power point dependent
• Was content heavy
• Too dependence on course notes
• Did not have enough breaks
• Had poor/rigid/constant seating arrangements
• Contained no opportunities for participants to learn from one another
• Included management been in the training space
• Was too structured or too unstructured
• Did not include enough mentoring and coaching
• Contained no proper evaluation and follow ups.

If you can think of more let me know.

Tags: Business training Ireland, corporate training, trainers, Training Consultants, training courses, Training goals, Training Needs, Training ROI, training solutions

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